It Happened to Me

The Yellow Griffin: Good Burgers, Lousy Service

Yesterday, we took Dave, who's visiting from Chicago, to his favourite restaurant in our neighbourhood: The Yellow Griffin (2202 Bloor…

19 years ago

Welcome, Dave!

Dave at Kensington Market during his first visit here in November 2004. This weekend, Dave, an old friend of Wendy's…

19 years ago

"This One Time…at BarCamp…"

"Organizers call the 'un-conferences'," says the teaser line for the article titled "This one time...at BarCamp...", "with no PowerPoint, unpaid…

19 years ago

Talking with John Bristowe on "Developer Night in Canada!"

I thought I'd already blogged it, but I hadn't: my friend John Bristowe, developer evangelist for Microsoft and brother of…

19 years ago

My New Title: Technical Evangelist

A slightly doctored image of John the Evangelist. For the past three years, I've held the title of "Technical Community…

19 years ago

Blood, Sweat and Tea

Here's something I'd been meaning to blog for a while now: Tom Reynolds, a Blogware user whom I met through…

19 years ago

Ramoniacs Poster

Just for kicks, here's the poster for the Ramoniacs' gig last Saturday at the Middle East nightclub in Cambridge, Massachusetts…

19 years ago

Bouncing with the Ramoniacs

My brother-in-law Andy Ramoniac, the bassist for the Boston-based Ramones tribute band, the Ramoniacs, invited me to be the Pinhead…

19 years ago

Mistakes on a Plane

We had an even-crappier-than-usual experience flying to Boston on American Eagle, but I'm too busy to write it up right…

19 years ago

A Dubious Distinction

Thanks to the articles about the Japanese bag of Doritos featuring the 'Taits-Kun' ("Tights Guys") characters in some hot foot-on-nards…

19 years ago